Comment 9 for bug 1300398

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Angger B. Pinasti (anggerbp) wrote : Re: Thunar don't refresh directory on content change

in my case, pressing f5 or refresh doest fix anything. worse, it display the wrong file; it's displaying file "A"; name is file "A", thumbnail is file "A" -- but if I open it, or worse, permanently delete it, it refers to another file. it could be the file I just edited. Disastrous file loss.

I have to go to parent folder then go forward to that folder again (using back doesn't fix in once occurence, yea, well, coz when this occur, it's too late to realize so I can't test it using diferrent approach coz, well, the bug already gone (or hide, maybe)).

it happens in random occurence, mostly like this:
0. let's say there's file A, B, C, D, E
1. edit a png/svg (gimp/inkscape) directly from thunar, say file A, and let thunar open.
2.a. After quite long period editing, save it or save as in the same dir, it happens.
2.b. More often, while saving progress almost done (or when progress bar likely stop a while),
     quickly switch to/raise thunar and wait for the file.
3. In my case visually it's file "A", but in fact, it's another file (file B).
   And file A is displayed as file E. So:
   * Visually, the file is in correct order ( A, B, C, D, E)
   * but phisically (or what should I called it?) it is B, C, D, E, A
   * the order is still following my sorting option, i.e, above is sort by name,
     if I sort by type, i.e. original sort is A, C, E, B, D, then 'phisically' the result is
     C, E, B, D, A.
   * I'm not quite remember whether changing sorting opts fix it or not
   * also can't remember right click > properties is the right or wrong file

System:
ubuntu 16.04.2 32 i686
using patch from this article http://tqdev.com/2016-xubuntu-16-04-thunar-crashes-on-rename
to patch another issue
thunar 1.6.10 xfce 4.12